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- 1. Overview
- 2. Three Overarching Principles
- 3. Architect’s Principles
- 4. Wrap up
AN ARCHITECTS GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR LEADERSHIP Seth Dobbs - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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AN ARCHITECTS GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR LEADERSHIP Seth Dobbs @sethdtech AGENDA 1. Overview 2. Three Overarching Principles 3. Architects Principles 4. Wrap up 1. OVERVIEW Seth Dobbs | @sethdtech LEADERSHIP IS AN ARCHITECTS
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- 1. OVERVIEW
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- “Digital” is becoming core to business
- We as architects need leadership skills equal to our technical skills
- Responsibility to guide business and align broad strategy
- Need to effectively communicate to our teams and motivate them
LEADERSHIP IS AN ARCHITECT’S IMPERATIVE
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The goal of leadership is to influence individuals, teams, and organizations to effectively deliver durable results
LEADERSHIP
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- Personal Mastery
- Individual Responsibility
- Self reflection
INTERNAL EXTERNAL
- Interdependence
- Responsibility for Others
- Team Learning
TWO ASPECTS OF LEADERSHIP
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- Teaching through principles is powerful
- Developers use tech principles all the time (DRY, YAGNI)
- Principles are to guide you, not tell you what to do
WHY PRINCIPLES
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- 2. THREE OVERARCHING PRINCIPLES
These form the core of good leadership and good team members
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The goal of leadership is to in influ luence individuals, teams, and organizations to effectively deliver durable results
LEADERSHIP
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- I. LEADERS PROVIDE VISION
...and can provide a path to realizing the vision
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Seneca
To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
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Outcome-focused view of how to solve the problems we’re faced with
WHAT IS VISION?
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The goal of leadership is to influence individuals, teams, and organizations to ef effec ectivel ely deliver durable results
LEADERSHIP
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- II. LEADERS SOLVE PROBLEMS
…and deal with difficult things, take ownership, focus on outcome
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Patrick Lencioni
The high point of being a leader in an organization is wrestling with difficult decisions and situations. Truncating those high points just doesn’t make sense.
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If all you want to do is say a few good words and hope for the best…you’re not ready to lead
DEALING WITH THE DIFFICULT
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The goal of leadership is to influence individuals, teams, and organizations to effectively deliver du durabl ble results
LEADERSHIP
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- III. LEADERS CREATE MORE LEADERS
…through continual improvement, through learning organizations, through principles
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Ralph Nader
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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Enabling team members to be better at what they do is a good thing
CREATING MORE LEADERS
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- 3. ARCHITECT’S PRINCIPLES
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“Why aren’t you coding?” “We need to do something, now!”
THE ANTI-PATTERN: BE BUSY!
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BIAS TO OUTCOME > BIAS TO ACTION
“We have to achieve something” vs. “We have to do something”
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Coding is an action. The goal is creating an interaction between people and/or systems that delivers a useful
- utcome.
PRINCIPLE APPLIED
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“I take on everything that comes my way” This is a good way to get buried and fail at everything
THE ANTI-PATTERN: NEVER SAY NO
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DON’T JUST SAY “YES”
Some think that success comes from saying ”yes” to everything Simply not true and will actually have the opposite result If everything is important, nothing is important
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Defend your ability to succeed Vision for your role should help you prioritize
PRINCIPLE APPLIED
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“We need a mobile app” Solutions in search of problems
THE ANTI-PATTERN: LEAD WITH SOLUTIONS
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SHAPE THE PROBLEM BEFORE THE SOLUTION
A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved Work to clarify and bound the problem
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A problem statement should have a desired
- utcome that isn’t happening or an existing
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PRINCIPLE APPLIED
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“Because I’m the architect”
THE ANTI-PATTERN: I’M IN CHARGE
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LEADERSHIP IS RESPONSIBILITY, NOT AUTHORITY
Leaders have a responsibility to make team members succeed, not an authority to make their ideas hold.
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Acknowledge and enlist
PRINCIPLE APPLIED
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- 1. I need someone to tell me what to do
- 2. …
- 3. I have all the answers and tell others
what to do
THE ANTI-PATTERN: FALSE STAGES OF MASTERY
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GETTING TO RIGHT > BEING RIGHT
People have more ownership in problems that they help solve
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- 1. I need to be taught what to do
- 2. I begin to realize how much I don’t know
- 3. I learn to ask the right questions
PRINCIPLE APPLIED
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“But what about this (esoteric) detail???” The CEO’s laptop…
THE ANTI-PATTERN: THE ROADBLOCKER
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DON’T PRIORITIZE MINUTIAE AT THE EXPENSE OF A GOOD SOLUTION
Not all requirements or scenarios are equal …even though parts of the business may not want to hear this
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Do the heavy lifting for high usage cases Get data to understand edge cases
PRINCIPLE APPLIED
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“I need to review everything”
THE ANTI-PATTERN: I AM THE CENTER OF ALL THE THINGS
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MAKE YOURSELF OBSOLETE
…so that you can tackle the next big problem
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Provide architectural principles to enable the dev team to make decisions in your absence
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“We really need to optimize this query” “The servers can’t support high throughput”
THE ANTI-PATTERN: A PROBLEM IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
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IF THE BUSINESS DOESN’T THINK IT’S A PROBLEM, IT’S NOT A PROBLEM
This doesn’t mean we can’t address technology problems We need to state them as business problems
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Translate our technical problem statements to business problem statements
PRINCIPLE APPLIED
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“That’s a bad requirement because it doesn’t fit our architecture” “That’s not agile!”
THE ANTI-PATTERN: SERVE THE MEANS
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DON’T ELEVATE THE MEANS BEYOND THE END
We as an industry have a tendency to do this Sometimes we feel distant from the value of the company and focus on what we can control to make our work interesting Sometimes organizations like their rules
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Our business needs don’t serve our architecture, our architectures enable us to achieve something
PRINCIPLE APPLIED
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- 4. WRAP UP
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- Principles are to guide you, not tell you what to do
- Think about why you make the decisions you make
- This is where principles come from and helps you refine your
understanding of your own approach
PRINCIPLES
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